Provo council directs staff to remove ADU owner-occupancy exemption after planning confusion

Provo City Council on Sept. 9 voted 7-0 to instruct staff to remove a specific exemption from the city’s owner-occupancy definition in Provo City Code chapter 14-30 as it applies to accessory dwelling unit (ADU) licensing. Councilors also voted 7-0 to ask staff to return with a proposal to revise the expedited map-change and special-use permit process used to put parcels on the ADU-allowed map.

City planning analyst Malia Daley told the council the change responds to conflicting readings of a paragraph commissioners identified as creating a de facto exemption to owner-occupancy. "To make this text amendment simple and something easy to go forward, we just suggested to remove the exemption," Daley said, adding the proposed language would require that everyone on title must live at the…